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been ~nterpreted ar a rub-flwr ddnage system rdwiched between the original eanhen
floor (Event 36) and Uls wcond eanhen flex (Event 4). It will k described in detail in
Chapter 2.
Event 5
The parent subsoxl beneath the cultural mam wn designated ar Event 5. It consisted of
two types of roil matrix. In pluces. it war ehterired as a reddish-bmwn sandy gravel
while in other mas. notably along the mkrn mwt portion of the rite. it had a greyish
white sandy clay matrix. A small number of wventeentheentury yrifafe was recovered
from this stratum. nKy had likely fwnd thur way into this orheruise sterile s mm
through the heaving action of U. annual cycle d freeze-thaw activity.
Event 6
This dcslgnation was arslgned to a fill dcpit diseovercd in n b arn pit (Feaure 3.
Figure 191 neu t k south side of the house. The roil matrix consisIed of what u ppad to
be redeprited grey-green or eream-mlwred randy clay rubroil. A small number af
anihar was recovered fmm chis pit 811, lhe date range of which war unurually bmd for
such r spatially limited depit. my have t en dated from the rcwntrmth to the late
eighteenth and possibly even early nirrtrrnth-xnwien.